Total miles traveled:8324
Today we did the north loop of Yellowstone. We started at Mammoth hot springs,there were huge mineral formations that were being formed by the many large hot springs. The area is constantly changing, the active hot springs are wet, colorful, and steamy, whereas the inactive ones are dry, and whiteish or gray. The colors that you see in the active hot springs come from different kinds of bacteria that thrive in hot water. while we where traveling we saw a total of 3 grizzly bears and 3 black bears, we got to watch a mama black bear give its cute tiny cub a tree climbing lesson. Later in the day we went big horned sheep "hunting" along some cliffs near the north entrance of the park were a park ranger said we might see some. After stopping at several pull offs and glassing the cliffs, we were rewarded by getting to see a whole herd of big horned sheep consisting of ewes and little lambs perched on a steep cliff the same color as their coats. The lambs were jumping about while thier mamas were laying down nearby. A little farther on up the road, we got to see a ewe right next to the road and watched amazed as it easily scampered up a cliff that seemed totally unscalable to us.
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